Repeat after me: all is well, all is well, all is well

I read a lot of blogs. The one thing I don't like to read, is when other bloggers apologize for having been absent for a while.

First of all, I don't think anybody really noticed. But also, I don't want to read about how busy work is, that your mother in law is staying with you for a month or how the cat has been peeing on your bed for 10 days straight and that’s why you had no time for us.

So I won't even bother apologizing to you. You probably didn't even notice I was gone. And you definitely don't want to hear me whine about feeling seriously overwhelmed. But did you know? I have only 11 days left before we leave for Holland (which should be stress in and of it's own) and only 10 days left after we come back from Holland (jet lag and all!) before we move!

(Oh, yes, by the way! We found a new place. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME? Because we have yet to see the lease contract. And as long as I don't have a signature, I will try to curb my enthusiasm. We all know what happened the last time I got excited about a new house. I still cry about that one. But hopefully this week I can show you some pictures of the next new house. DO I LIKE IT? It's okay. It was our only option. It is more expensive then where we live now, with less of the extra's (like eh... water view! gone!).

TWENTY days to move 3 years worth of crap! Minus the packing and unpacking for Holland.

If I give up sleeping for a while, I might just make it. It's just me who is doing all the organizing, planning, packing, making dump runs, sorting through things. Twenty days is NOT much. The new house has no storage space, so I need to seriously go through all the stuff in the basement. This, dear internet, is NOT easy. My basement is full of stuff I will use one day, but now I will have to either give it away or sell it (which… duh…. 20 days is not enough to add a yard sale to the stress). And the old house needs to be left behind all clean and in old condition, meaning we have to put back a lot of stuff we had changed and removed.

I think I am hyperventilating.

ALSO. IN THOSE 20 DAYS LEFT? I have to finish two whole years of taxes. Which will take me a good 7-8 days to enter all those data.

Oh dear. I need a drink.